He was a law professor, a politician, and activist who was born and raised in wisconsin and came to be a professor at the University School of law when he was in his late 20s. It was a major career job. He was soon appointed dean. The youngest being in the country. Then he got involved in a lot of social and political issues. He was a labor arbitrator. He negotiated settlements and agreements from the International Agreement and Pacific Maritime association. He was the only arbitrator that could get size to settle. They were building ships there. They needed that port. They wanted him a permanent arbitrator. He got the political bug and later wanted to be selected in 1944. At that time, we were moderate republicans. He did switch parties. I think the last rough for him was when he was chosen to be Vice President and said i can only be part of this party. He had a series of disputes. He didnt have enough social justice orientation. He left the party, became independent, famously sat in
Thank you for coming. I appreciate you being here. I was in san diego when i tried to get down to see you but that didnt work out. Im glad im here. The students preemptively. Yes i applaud your standard and im a Public School administrator and i appreciate your stand. My question directs itself to the idea of ronald ragan who is secretary of education a one of his first speeches, i loved what he said. He he said what we need to do in the department of education, again hes the director of the department of education and he said we need to eradicate the department of education. I applauded that. Im forced to be a member of the California Teachers Association and i realize they are the largest contributing groups to the Democratic Party. I realize you dont have a magic pill for an answer, but youre right, education, were doomed to repeat what we have like lincoln said prayer what you have for a thought as to how do we steer this aircraft carrier. I wrote five books on universities. And ho
The senate is out for a brief july 4th recess at 10 am eastern, vote in the afternoon on judicial nomination on immigration bills. Mitch mcconnell hopes to bring up a bill to combat the zika virus which was blocked by the senator earlier in the week. Coverage of the senate when it returns on cspan2. You are watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv,television for serious readers. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies and brought you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. Afterwards is next. Barbara boxer discusses her book the art of tough fearlessly facing politics and life which looks at her life and career in politics. She is interviewed by senator Amy Klobuchar from minnesota. Host barbara boxer, what an honor to be with you, one of my mentors in the senate, someone who came into the senate when there was barely a woman to be seen, you were there and this book you have written, the art of tough fearlessly
You did it all with such grace, but also with that art of the tub, so do you want to talk about what that was life growing up in your stories with your family and how you ever decided to take this journey . Guest you said it was to interview me. Im so excited that you agreed to do this because it says a lot about our relationship and the warmth we share and i am so thrilled and as you know im going to get to your question seconds, but the fact is the warm relationships that have developed between the women senator and frankly a lot of the men means so much to me. You know im not running again and people say why, are you disgusted with the place, not at all. I just feel after 40 years there are people that are like you that can carry the banner. We have our colleague from new york who writes the forward and you interviewing me. I could not be more thrilled, but getting to the issue of how did i get tough, what was my life like when i was a child which in this memoir when i sat down to w
How this is shaped regionally , obviously, shaped the plain tribe that was involved and nature of warfare and weather and how they interact but its a great book and you know when youre in it, that hes a guy pulled into the character of kuster and pulled into the character of, you know, crazy horse and you know and understands he was so good. But i can pick out a bunch of other books and tell you but id pick this one too. You know, and wouldnt even be necessarily a history book. But again wonderful first man of rome series. That book on politics and intrigue and roman war it is better than any history written at the time and theres wonderful, wonderful histories. But boy, what a tremendous historical l novel, and you learn a lot from it. Congressman tom cole thank you. Thank you enjoyed it. Cspan created by americas Cable Television company and brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. Afterwards is next, california senator Barbara Boxer discusses her book